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Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies

To: K3SK@buckwalter.co
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] [NEWSVHF] June VHF Contest from Out in the Boonies
From: Fred Stefanik <n1dpmfred@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:43:54 -0400
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Very nice score Dave!
73
Fred
K1FMS

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 3:38 PM Dave via NEWSVHF <newsvhf@mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Like they say LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION.
>
>
>
> If you want to place in the Top 10 nation-wide in a VHF contest, you have
> to
> live in the NorthEast.   Although this was a decent contest and I hit my
> all-time highest score ever in 45 years of VHF contesting, I'm sure by the
> rummers I've heard, the multi-band guys in New England cleaned up again.
> Out here in the boonies of south-central Virginia working nearly 30 QSOs on
> 222 & 432 is monumental.     However, it doesn't help much against stations
> that are located 100 to 200 miles from 3 to 4 times as many on those same
> bands.   Not to mention all the close-in 1296 and up stations in those
> over-populated home-owner association run neighborhoods of the NE.   Even
> with my first ever 6-digit score, it would have been much better had there
> been any enhanced propagation on the 2m and up bands.  Sporadic E
> propagation on 6 meters was great most of the contest, with a European
> opening in the beginning hours.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Band            QSO    Grid
>
>
>
> 50M             265       156
>
> 144M            102       36
>
> 222M             28       17
>
> 432M             28       18
>
> 1.2G                 3         3
>
>
>
> Total            426      230
>
>
>
>   Score: 112,240
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>
>
>
>
> de K3SK
>
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